Kathryn Schulmeister, Double Bass Recital

FACULT Y DOUBLE BASS RECITAL

Kathryn Schulmeister Guy Powell, guitar Nick Sanders, piano

Monday, February 5, 2024 7:30 pm Recital Hall

56TH PERFORMANCE OF 2023–24 ACADEMIC YEAR

FEBRUARY 5, 2024, 7:30 PM Ibérique Péninsulaire (1979)

François Rabbath (b. 1931)

with their I you your fuse (2016) as for me she, she, a window—moon drawn—I angrily (she, moon)

Leilehua Lanzilotti (b. 1983)

Five Dances (1986) III II V

Annette Kruisbrink (b. 1958) Guy Powell, guitar

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Stained Glass Memory (2020) Nick Sanders, piano After the Sun (2019) Nick Sanders, piano Trois pièces (1914) Modéré Sans vitesse et a l’aise Vite et nerveusement rythmé

Nick Sanders (b. 1987) Kathryn Schulmeister (b. 1989) Nadia Boulanger (1887–1979) arr. Kathryn Schulmeister

Nick Sanders, piano The Elegant Sadness (2015) Nick Sanders, piano Kicho (1970) Nick Sanders, piano

Kamau Kenyatta (b. 1955)

Astor Piazzolla (1921–1992) trans. José Bragato

PROGRAM NOTES Lanzilotti: with their I you your fuse Leilehua Lanzilotti is a Kanaka Maoli (Native Hawaiian) composer/sound artist. A “leading composer-performer” (New York Times), Lanzilotti composes works characterized by expansive explorations of timbre.

Lanzilotti’s practice explores radical indigenous contemporaneity, integrating community engagement into the heart of projects. By world-building through multimedia installation works and nontraditional concert experiences/ musical interventions, Lanzilotti’s works activate imagination around new paths forward in language sovereignty, water sovereignty, land stewardship, and respect.

Note by the composer The first movement uses rhythms derived from transcribing lines of a poem

by Anne Sexton. The rhythms in the following movements are based on excerpts from that text as it is washed off (the resulting text that I created through this process is included below). The diminution of the text functions as both structure and metaphor in the piece. ii. she, she down cast she exquisite dull and a face the wild window by at three—moon drawn up there resting, she with their I you your fuse, angrily for her (I, I) she, she, a window—moon drawn—I angrily iii. (she, moon)

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PROGRAM NOTES Kruisbrink: Five Dances Born in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, Annette Kruisbrink studied the guitar with Pieter van der Staak at the conservatory of Zwolle, graduating in 1983.

She subsequently trained herself to play the flamenco guitar and the vihuela.

In addition to composing, she performs regularly as a soloist and in duo with her brother, double bass player Eric Kruisbrink.

Kenyatta: The Elegant Sadness Pianist/soprano saxophonist Kamau Kenyatta resides in San Diego, California.

He is a Grammy Award–winning producer and arranger and a teaching professor at the University of California San Diego music department.

Originally from Detroit, his versatility comes from his early exposure to a vast array of musical styles. Destiny, a recording that showcases Kenyatta as pianist, composer, and producer, was released in the spring of 2007. The Elegant Sadness, his most recent recording in the same roles was released in the fall of 2019.

ARTIST BIOGRAPHIES Kathryn Schulmeister serves as assistant professor of practice in double bass at University of the Pacific.

Praised for her “expressive and captivating performance” (GRAMMY.com), Hawai‘i-born bassist Schulmeister enjoys a creative musical practice as a versatile performer, educator, and researcher. Recent honors include a 2020 Grammy Award nomination as a collaborating artist featured on Susan Narucki’s The Edge of Silence, a contemporary classical album of chamber works by György Kurtág on AVIE Records (2019).

Schulmeister has appeared as a soloist with leading international contemporary ensembles including Klangforum Wien, the ELISION Ensemble, and Ensemble Vertixe Sonora. She has given solo performances at venues and festivals around the world including the Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival, ECLAT Festival Neue Musik Stuttgart, San Diego Museum of Making Music, soundSCAPE Festival, Vértice Festival, and the GRAMMY Museum at L.A. LIVE. Schulmeister performed as a member of the bass section of the Hawai‘i Symphony Orchestra from 2014 to 2017 and has performed with the Ojai Festival Orchestra, Phoenix Symphony, New West Symphony, California Chamber Orchestra, Lucerne Festival Alumni Orchestra, Maui Chamber Orchestra, Ballet Hawaii, and Hawaii Opera Theater.

Schulmeister received her Doctor of Musical Arts degree in contemporary music performance from the University of California San Diego, Master of Music degree from McGill University, and Bachelor of Music degree from the New England Conservatory of Music.

ARTIST BIOGRAPHIES Guy Powell is a lecturer in guitar at University of the Pacific. He received his Bachelor of Music degree from California State University, Sacramento, and his Master of Music degree from the San Francisco Conservatory of Music. His principal teachers included Richard Savino, David Tannenbaum, and Marc Teicholz.

Powell has performed all over the United States as soloist, ensemble, and musical theater performer and participated in such events as the Guitarraganza Festival, Guitar Foundation of America, Portland Guitar Festival, Cal Arts Festival, La Guitarra Festival, and the California Bach Festival. Powell has also served as a codirector for the 2015, 2016, and 2017 Guitarraganza festival, as well as serving as the festival’s director for the solo competition.

In addition to regular solo performances, Powell is also a member of the chamber ensemble Tritarra, a guitar trio specializing in adapting more eclectic genres of music for the concert stage, and recently has formed a new ensemble, Duo Sonik, with fellow guitarist Travis Silvers. With a great passion for teaching and public outreach, Powell has joined as a director for the San Joaquin County chapter of Guitars Not Guns, a nonprofit organization with chapters across the country in thirteen states, that provides guitars and lessons to foster children and at-risk youth with qualified teachers as an alternative to violence.

ARTIST BIOGRAPHIES Nick Sanders is an American pianist, composer, and producer currently living in Los Angeles, California.

He earned his bachelor’s and master’s degrees from the New England Conservatory of Music (NEC) in Boston, where he studied with pianists Fred Hersch, Jason Moran, and Danilo Pérez.

During his time at NEC, Sanders was awarded the “Eubie Blake Piano Award for Performance Excellence of Traditional American Music” from 2009 to 2012 consecutively.

Upon graduating from NEC and arriving in New York, Sanders was signed to the esteemed Sunnyside Records label. Pianist Fred Hersch served as the producer for his first two piano trio albums, Nameless Neighbors (2013) and You Are a Creature (2015). During this time, Sanders’s trio performed primarily at venues in New York City and New Orleans including a critically acclaimed performance at the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival. In 2019 Sanders released his third jazz trio album for Sunnyside, Playtime 2050.

His first solo piano album, also on the Sunnyside label, Phantoms of Memory, was written and recorded during the 2020 pandemic. Phantoms of Memory features entirely original compositions by Sanders, taking influences from composers Debussy, Chopin, Prokofiev, Glass, and others.

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